Value stream mapping
Every step from order to cash, timed and costed, separating the work your customer pays for from the work they quietly subsidise.
Operational Excellence
Profit is a process.
Profit is a process.
We engineer it.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt consultancy for growing businesses: waste out, capacity released, margin protected, and your team trained to keep it that way.
The service
Black Belt rigour, SME scale.
Every business is a set of processes, and every process leaks: waiting, rework, duplication, overproduction, handoffs that add delay but not value. In a company under £10 million those leaks are rarely visible on the management accounts, yet they quietly set the ceiling on margin, capacity and customer experience.
Our operational excellence practice applies Lean Six Sigma at Black Belt level, using the DMAIC method: define the problem precisely, measure the baseline, analyse root causes statistically, improve with your team, and control so the gain holds. The same discipline that transformed global manufacturers, sized and priced for the owner-managed business.
We are as comfortable in an office or service operation as on a shop floor. Administrative processes, in our experience, hide at least as much waste as production ever did.
Where we help
- End-to-end process mapping and value stream analysis
- Waste elimination and cost reduction programmes
- Capacity release without additional headcount
- Quality improvement and cost of poor quality reduction
- Automation of repetitive administrative work
- Standard operating procedures and process documentation
- Practical Lean Six Sigma training for your team
The engagement
What you receive.
- 01
A measured baseline
Cycle times, error rates, cost per transaction and capacity, established statistically before anything is changed. The before photograph, taken properly.
- 02
Root cause analysis
Statistical analysis that separates the vital few causes from the trivial many, so effort lands where it pays.
- 03
Redesigned, documented processes
Processes rebuilt with the people who run them, documented as standard work and supported by the right level of automation.
- 04
Control and capability transfer
Control charts, exception reporting and training so improvement compounds after we leave rather than decaying.
The discipline's language, translated
Lean Six Sigma, in pounds and pence.
The vocabulary matters less than what it does to your margin. The tools we reach for most, and what each one earns:
Cost of poor quality
What errors, rework, credit notes and complaints actually cost each month. Usually the fastest profit recovered in the whole engagement.
Statistical process control
Control charts that show whether a movement in the numbers is signal or noise, so management acts on evidence and stops chasing shadows.
Kaizen & DMAIC
Structured, repeatable improvement cycles your own team learns to run, so margin keeps compounding long after we leave.
Why Dubnium
The difference in practice.
Lean Six Sigma is often sold as workshops and belts. We sell outcomes: a named process, a measured baseline, a statistically verified improvement and a control plan in your team's hands. Engagements are led personally by Black Belt qualified consultants with operating experience across manufacturing, services and healthcare businesses.
Speak to Dubnium
Begin with a conversation.
Every engagement starts the same way: a confidential, no-obligation discussion about where your business stands and where it ought to be.